Last Saturday a shooting pal gave me a large slab of yellow wax which he tells me is used for lost wax casting. I melted it down and strained it through an old handkerchief to remove any bits and what I now have is a wax that looks like beeswax, has no noticeable smell and has a consistency about the same as ordinary 50/50 beeswax, Alox bullet lube at room temperature (say 60 F.). I’ve tried to find out exactly what this stuff is but the only thing I’ve found on the Internet is a health and safety description that matched the appearance and said it was “hydrocarbon wax”.

I’m guessing that it would run through a lubrisizer exactly as it is. I’ll try pan lubing a few bullets and see what happens.

Has anybody got any thoughts on the suitability of this wax as bullet lube, either by itself or as part of a formula?